Room to Read Hiring for Senior Program Officer, Gender mainstreaming at New Delhi Full Time

Position Overview:

In alignment with the USAID’s gender mainstreaming strategy, RtR India has undertaken gender mainstreaming in SERI. The same is being rolled out according to the Gender Development Plan of RtR India. The plan brings activities related to evidence generation through landscape studies, enhancing awareness, commitment and capacity at the level of the state to undertake gender responsive classroom practices, enhancing organizational capacity to mainstream gender in all aspects of work related to foundational literacy/education and strengthening mechanisms for creating gender aware teaching-learning materials. This position will include working closely with the program team at the national level as well as at the state level and ensuring that the gender mainstreaming plan for 2024-2025 (at both levels) is completed with quality, documentation of the same is maintained and reflections from all the plotted activities are carried out and fed back into the system.

Roles & Responsibilities

Overall Responsibilities:

Programmatic Understanding and Preparedness

• Develop a thorough understanding about the SERI program and its functioning with focus on gender mainstreaming plan.

• Understand and learn about the Annual Work Plan existing at the national level and also of 6 SERI states.

• Coordinate and establish interdepartmental communication between national teams (Girls Education Program, Operations, Instruction Design and Teacher Support (IDTS).) and state teams towards the common outcomes and goals.

• Work closely with SERI state teams in ensuring that the state level activities as part of the annual work plan are completed with right preparation in terms of materials and capacities.

• Ensure that identified areas of gender mainstreaming in the overall plan of SERI are communicated well to states and advocate them to integrate it in a desired manner with a 360-degree preparation in terms of training materials, capacity enhancement and on sight support.

• Continuously work with the state and national office team by creating formal and capitalizing informal spaces for strengthening commitment towards gender mainstreaming work

• inputting on identifying areas of gender mainstreaming in terms of material creation, training support and

• Anchoring national level activities and designing the learning, dissemination and further usage of the findings and recommendations

Content Creation and Training Support

• Anchor and lead creation of training designs, relevant materials and content for gender mainstreaming.

• Develop notes, training documents, TOT programs, presentations, content for various initiated capacity building; preparation and follow for these engagements with the states.

• Identify capacity building needs at national including SERI states and support through technical assistance, coaching and mentoring,

• Anchor and lead training designs for internal capacity building of teams on gender responsive teaching ,gender mainstreaming and gender lensing of activities

• Support state teams in planning and implementing field level trainings, Master trainer’s training.

• Ensure continuum of capacity building exercises and reflection circles of the tasks undertaken by the states .

Documentation and Qualitative Reporting

• Creating quality SERI weekly, monthly, qurtarely with technical and qualitative inputs.

• Support state in documentation of trainings, events and building a narrative.

• Ensuring that all the activities and events are documented for institutional memory, analysis and reflection and are completed timely

• Reviewing state and national documents-training documents, concept notes, reports and inputting .

• Support/upgrade in developing standard presentations, notes that can be used to represent  SERI -Gender Plan to various audiences like government, donors, external agencies, academics etc

Onsite Support

• Visit SERI state field to identify, observe and support state teams in managing Gender mainstreaming efforts.

• Overall support to SERI state teams in planning and implementing gender plans.

• Organize key meetings, national workshops and conferences, under the project at national level,

• support organizing of meetings, workshops and trainings at state level.

• Regularly undertake and document the monthly check in calls conducted with the relevant states.

• Undertake any other work assigned from time to time to meet the technical needs of the organization.

Qualification: 

• The candidate should have experience of working in area of gender and education.

• Should at least hold a master’s degree in social sciences.

• Should have at least 5-8 years of relevant experience.

• Should be willing to undertake frequent travel at the project sites.

• Should have demonstratable experience in gender-based analysis, creating training materials, facilitation.

• Should have high level of writing skills.

Compensation:

Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include a thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.

Room to Read is a child-safe organization.

Location(s)

India – Main – New Delhi

To be successful at Room to Read, you will also: 

• Have passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic nonprofit organization 
• Be a proactive and innovative thinker who achieves results and creates positive change
• Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness  
• Embrace diversity and a commitment to collaboration 
• Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment 

Room to Read is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled